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Journal article
The Analytics of the Australian Private Health Insurance Rebate and the Medicare Levy Surcharge
Agenda - A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform, Vol.18(2), pp.27-47
2011
Abstract
This paper presents an analytical framework for examining changes in the Private Health Insurance rebate (PHIR) and the Medicare Levy Surcharge (MLS), and uses it to establish three key propositions. First, increases in the MLS rate tend to reduce the elasticity of demand for private health insurance. Second, simultaneously
increasing MLS rates and thresholds has a theoretically ambiguous effect on PHI take-up rates. Third, means testing the PHIR can never increase PHI take-up, and will reduce it in some circumstances. The paper concludes with a discussion of the possible consequences of recently proposed policy changes to private health insurance in Australia.
Details
- Title
- The Analytics of the Australian Private Health Insurance Rebate and the Medicare Levy Surcharge
- Authors/Creators
- A. Robson (Author/Creator)H. Ergas (Author/Creator)F. Paolucci (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Agenda - A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform, Vol.18(2), pp.27-47
- Publisher
- College of Business and Economics, Australian National University
- Identifiers
- 991005542384407891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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